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The AJ’s Women in Architecture issue features interviews with Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and winner of this year’s Jane Drew Prize; and architectural photographer Hélène Binet, who has won the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for women working in the wider industry. PLUS We revisit O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Saw Swee Hock LSE student centre to see how it is faring five years on; the AJ’s Working in Architecture ...

I wonder what that appalling old snob James Lees-Milne, architectural historian and conservationist, would have thought about this image of a typical National Trust member, as drawn by Glen Baxter and used on the trust's stationery. An enemy of democracy (as made only too clear in his newly-published diaries), Lees-Milne in fact encouraged the hoi-polloi to enjoy what only the aristocracy had hitherto enjoyed, by helping to create the trust. One notable diary entry refers to a visit to Lyme Park in Cheshire, a Palladian pile by Giacomo Leoni: 'It was a nightmare of crawling, short-sleeved, smelly, happy people.' At least they were happy.

Whether it be photos of using some novel mode of self-propulsion, checking out the artisan produce of Martha’s Vineyard or reclining on a giant inflatable unicorn, Norman Foster ’s Instagram account is regularly inundated with adoring comments from around the globe

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